Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language, Paperback - Ilan Stavans

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Reducere. During a century of extraordinary change, poets became the chroniclers of deep polarizations. From Rub n Dar o's quest to renew the Spanish languag...

Reducere. In this essential exploration of the American heartland, Kayleigh McEnany presents an eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the po...

For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other ...

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The United States of Mestizo is a powerful manifesto attesting to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Writer...

How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it evoke a sense of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ilan StavansIllustrator: Lalo AlcarazCultural critic and acclaimed author Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and mult...

The illustrated history of a seminal New York neighborhood--a story of birth, decline, and renewal, of high design, of grit and glamour--a tale of ...

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At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union captured 600, 000 Japanese prisoners of war and interned them in Siberian labor camps. Sherzod Muminov...

The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens. 707 people out of every 100, 000 are imprisoned. If those currently incarcerated i...

Reducere. An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustr...

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Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks is the atmospheric, compelling follow-up to the stunning debut A Death of No Importance, featuring ser...

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Seven-year-old James wants to be a brave and noble knight like his father. He dreams of the day that he too will wear the golden spurs that symboli...

Reducere. The goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contempora...

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels-and their baffled e...

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You've heard of David Beckham: the world-famous celebrity, actor, model, entrepreneur, philanthropist and charity ambassador. But what about the fo...

This is a true story about a doctor who, as a young man, developed a fierce independence. His goals became not only to become the best doctor he co...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

The fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today's music scene The star of the Metropolitan Opera's recent revival of ...

The definitive single-volume biography of Siegfried Sassoon, from the world's leading scholar of the great war poet

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susanne (University of Bremen, Germany) SchattenbergIllustration(s): 37 bw illusNumber of pages: 512...

In this unique, full colour volume, editor Ian Buxton has assembled a top team of whisky experts to tell the colourful story behind the popular whi...

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A rich and evocative account of the life and work of Britain's favourite composer from one of our finest conductors.

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Throwing open the doors of the closed world of ballet, Swan Dive does for dancers what Kitchen Confidential did for professional chefs.Publisher: P...

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Throwing open the doors of the closed world of ballet, Swan Dive does for dancers what Kitchen Confidential did for professional chefs.Publisher: P...

Reducere. Making a New American Constitution explores the grave flaws in the United States Constitution that obstruct reforms urgently needed for national un...